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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mymagicmyhero:
BIG Help Needed- possibly bricked phone!

So here's the story:

I've tried to uninstall the voodoo lagfix, and I ended with a bricked phone (at least i Think so).

I can't get to download mode, because it seems samsung has disabled this. I can't go into recovery mode too. This is what happens:

I turn on my phone and I get The Samsung I900 logo then there is only a SAMSUNG logo and after a few seconds it restrats and again and again.

The phone is not recognized by Odin, Kies or ADB!

When I put my phone in the usb or charger i'm getting the big green battery but next to it there is a yellow triangle with a termometer.

Any Ideas on how to fix this yould be appreciated!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToothlessJack:
I've also just bricked my i9000. Was running JP6 with cf Root and Doc_kalpik Rom but with the release of JPO wanted to try out the new firmware.

Following the guide on samfirmware.com rather than doing a straight flash with JPO I flashed JM8 first (as I did when installing JP6). Before doing this I unmounted and removed my external SD and sim and flashed the internal sim.

After getting the green light on Odin after flashing JM8 my i9000 failed to reboot successfully and is now displaying a phone and computer sign with an exclamation in a yellow triangle between the two.

I can still get in to download mode but Odin no longer registers my phone's connection via USB so am unable to just reflash the PDA kernel that got me out of this corner last time.

I think the problem could have come from the fact that I had installed a lag fix built in to the rom in ClockworkMod (NO-RFS advanced EXT4 ) and hadn't reverted to rfs before flashing my phone...is this the case as if I get my phone again don't want to be too scared to flash it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
Total Bricked/ Black Screen/ no recovery or download accessable

before anyone asks, i have spentall morning searching the forum for a solition before posting this thread...

right onto the problem, as the title suggests i beleive i may have totally bricked my phone :-(

a couple of weeks ago, i installed a froyo ROM [I9000XXJPC]. This was a complete success [no problems at all]. i reinstalled all the apps i used including OCLF [and modified setcpu profiles/ altered minfree settings].

again still no problems.

this was all working fine for about 2-3 weeks. then last saturday i was just on facebook, closed it, locked the phone, put it the phone down, picked it back up, pressed the menu button [to wake the phone up], nothing happened...pressed it again, nothing happened, pressed the power button and nothing happened either.

i though it had just crashed, so i pulled the battery and re-started. i got the start up music, but no image on the screen, did this a couple of times with the same outcome.

so i tried to get the phone into recovery mode [had done this successfully many times before] and it did not work, so pulled the battery and tried download mode [done this successfully before also] and this did not work.

since then all i have been able to acheive is the start up music without anything on the screen.

today i have connected the phone to my computer, and stared odin3, this finds the phone as "0:[COM17]". so i downloaded I9000XXJP1 from samsung-firmwares and flashed using Odin3 [512.pit & I9000XXJP1 as PDA – repartition ticked]. below is the log from Odin:

the phone then re-started, i got the start-up music but no display.

i have also tried connecting to Kies and all i get is

for a while, followed by

i have tried restarting and keep getting the same thing.

does anyone have any ideas?

update

re-flashed my froyo ROM, no fix...

left the phone connected to my PC and kies open [in background].

just gone back to kies to close it and the phone is connected, so copied everything off the phone. went to update firmware and it tellsme there is no update available.

odin now sees phone as 0:[COM20]

update 2

the phone now connects to Kies every time [never did this before] so i have managed to back up pretty much everything :-)

the phone now gives me the alert tones for connecting to PC and what i think is receiving SMS's [going to do a test SMS and e-mail to check]

When i call the phone i just get "welcome to the o2 messaging service...."
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
update 2 added

anyone :-(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
[Q] Bell i9000m "internal SD card" failure / bricked phone

Ok so this appears to be a serious issue. My phone (2nd GXS actually) was stock, no root, no nothing. One day it just went black screen and after a reboot etc. it just goes from logo to the black screen -- people have been saying this is a faulty internal sd card error

Using download mode, I reset/factory wipe.

Now it works.

My question is simple: WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED ? and is this indicative that I will seriously have a major fail in the future ? Should I get a new Galaxy S ? I have a buddy who is a manager at the bell store so it wouldn't be an issue really...

but how can I tell if my SD card is done or what-not ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
As I mentioned to you in PM... This definitely sounds like a precurser to the internal SD card failing however I am surprised that you were able to get your phone to reboot after wiping from download mode (I actually believe it was from recovery though) as others have not been able to get their phones to reboot from this syndrome.

As I mentioned... Look in this forum for the Bell i9000m internal SD card failure poll and you will see MANY people here in Canada that have had this issue.

I also recommed speaking with xda member AllGamer on this as well as he is quite knowledgeable in this matter.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
Yeah I have been reading all morning -- it seems to be pretty common.

I hit volume up + home + power then go into the mode

i hit reset factory / wipe - and it worked

now my question is simple: will this re-occur? if so I can just get another phone (my friend is a bell manager at a store)

also, is it to do with apps? I'm an apps fiend -- i had alot. Is this why the cards goes caput ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
I do not know if this has to do with app space, lagfix, unofficial froyo flashing or if it is just a simple case of a "bad batch" of sd cards but if I had to guess I'd say that it will happen again and probably sooner than later since it has happened once already.

Im no expert by any means but if your friend is a Bell Manager I would take advantage of that and get yourself another SGS from him via exchange.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
try this

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
hrere's the link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=819551
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bignoses:
I had the exact same problem with my SGS at 12:30. Tried to open an app. the got a process error. Could not do anythiong else than remove the battery. After that, the phone could go past the GS annimation then a black screen. Had to do a Hard Reset... and everything is fine.

Will it come back ?

Your input ... ?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yiannisthegreek:
Again, I am not an expert on this but I would have to say that if it has happened once then it will probably come back and probably sooner than later since it has happened once already. Again... I recommend that you also try and contact xda member AllGamer as he is much more knowledgable on this than I but this is my opinion from reading about the issued here in MANY different threads.

Than fact that both of you were able to reboot after a HARD RESET however is a bit different from what Ive seen... :confused:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Funkadelick:
How long have you had your phone for ? alot of apps ?

mine was vanilla, no lag fix, no root, no flash, just pure stock... but lots of apps.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warfanax:
Ohhh yeah it will definetely happen again. I own sgs for almost 3 months and I had this problem 4 times. Everytime I did factory reset and it went fine. I have no lag fixes no nothing as well...

When it happened first I thought some bad apps caused this. After reset I only installed necessary apps but it failed again.

This pisses me of. I have to lose all my data almost every 3 weeks. I tried to test the internal sd with copying and deleting 14gb data several times but it didnt fail though. But I know soon I ll grab my phone and see that black screen again and lose all my data due to factory reset.

Other problem is I heard internal sd failures due to lag fixes. I really wanna lag fix my phone but I am afraid of it. What happens if it fails? I guess I will need to send it to samsung and what if they understand that I tried to modify filesystem? Its probably gonna void my warranty.

If anyone knows what the hell is this problem and the solution pls let us know...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
so today, following the advice from this post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=8956238&postcount=7

i have installed JM8...no change.

following on from reading the thread on making a home-made jig there is a section that says...

as i do not get the logo, or anything on my screen for that matter, does this mean that the bootloader is buggered?

there is an option in Odin that allows you to tick "phone bootloader update" is there some way that i can use this?

Matt
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
Hmm. I would say that your phone works fine, just broken screen. Try to switch it on and than call it, see if you get music and some kind of response.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bidboy:
Worrying 3 bricked issues

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=823816

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=825643

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=825243

Three reports of bricked phones in last couple of days. Hope its not a hardware fault just starting to show up. :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
dont think it is that, i have re-started the phone [got start up music and no display as normal]. left it about 5 mins to make sure that it was fully loaded and tried ringing it [just get answer phone] and texting it [no delivery]. so dont reckon it is that :(
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ImraanK:
Yes... The i9000m's are known for fried internal sd cards....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcboyy:
if you 100% sure your phone is bricked, then send it back to Samsung for warranty :P They won't able to boot your phone and gonna replace a new one

this is an evil way but its their fault for selling a lag-crap phone
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] almaalma74:
Yeah, 3-4 phones are bricked from 5-6 millions by "everyday new fw" guys...

It is very worrying
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pcboyy:
after all, I believe your phone is still fine.. just try flashing between eclair and froyo occasionally ...

I used to experience the problem same like you where my screen turned to black and all I could hear is the boot sound. I reflashed back to eclair and froyo and now my sgs is fine

Good luck
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fatherboard:
Omfg!! I'm now worried! Omg!!!

Sent from my Galaxy S
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
thats the problem though, i cannot say 100% that it is bricked, becasue i dont know for sure.

also wont samsung know ive messed with the phone and therefore voided my warranty??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
which versions did you flash [eclaire and froyo?]
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] garyHal:
Same here, I have been putting off this phone for a long time now, hoping that there is some clear sign that they have resolved it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
just flashed I9000XXJF3...no change

going to try 's froyo now...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
If anyone took time to research this problem is not exclusive to flashers or ppl who use lagfixes.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
On the other hand, there is no evidence these problems are even related..

As mentioned though, at least 2 of them are Canadian, and it might be due to the SD i9000m fault.

And people must remember, most people don't join forums to talk about their phones unless they are having problems, had problems or are developing apps. But 3 new posts are statistically insignificant, when you consider that millions have been sold.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] EarlZ:
Totally incorrect.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] t1mman:
You know the whole deal with arguing pro or con something is to put arguement... not just state "Totally incorrect"...

I do beleive most users join in a forum either to test things out or because they have issue. If it's working fine, most people won't give word of it. I've been working in IT for years and the better you do, the lesser people will "notice" it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
Really? I will admit I have failed to prove it, but how many "we love you INSERT COMPANY" threads do you see on such sites? Logically, why else would you hang out here? Because you find it fun? Why did you join?By the looks of your first thread, it was to ask if you could flash to unbranded firmware, because of "slowdowns". So you yourself must have come here looking to fix a problem with slowdowns.

Either way, back on topic, there isn't enough information here to know if they are related, or to know if it's a new/prevalent problem, but it might be the existing known i9000m problem
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] groaner:
i just sent in my 2nd handset for repairs for what seems to be the same reason.

I am hoping that it gets fixed but I'd love to know who of those who had a bricked phone with the supposed memory card issue got the phone back and have been successfully using it better than ever.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
tried around 6 different firmwares now, mixture of froyo, eclair and custom roms and nothing is working.

now flashed back to JM1 and that doesn't work either :(:confused::mad:
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darrelka:
I9000 logo after upgrade

hi, guys! I tried to do a firm upgrade to 2.2, but my GalaxyS remained on the Samsung Galaxy I9000 logo screen. The ODIN shows that all are passed, but the phone don't wanna start. Even if I putted down the battery, when it putted back and pushed the ON button, the display shows the same logo.

Anyone can help me to do a downgrade, back to 2.1?

Important: when the battery is putted back, the phone allow the enter in Download Mode and the Odin recognize the device, and it work properly. I think I am so close, but...

PLS, help me!

Thanks,

D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
don't worry i think he meant it as there are people that join the forum to learn more about their phones even if they don't have a problem

me for example

it paids to learn ahead and prevent known issues to happen

still on my first phone

technically second phone, because the very first one was bricked on the 2nd day trying to flash Froyo via Odin and had it replaced for another brand new one right away :p

no factory technical issues so far **knocks on wood**
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrewluecke:
That's true Allgamer, but the vast majority of posts I believe tend to be due to problems. But that's unproven
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aNdroidnut:
I know im bringing up an old thread, but I am looking at purchasing a bricked bell vibrant. The phone shows the black screen of death(phone to pc) but will boot into download mode. Will I be able to flash stock from odin to get it to boot back up or is this one toast? Thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aNdroidnut:
I am about to buy a bricked bell vibrant. The user says its bricked trying to put on lagfix. It shows phone to pc screen but will go into download mode. My ? is how is it bricked if it will go into download mode? Cant I use odin to reflash? I seen where the previous owner who sold it to him sold it as bricked stating that the nvram needed to be reflashed.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
only if the internal SD is not deep fried, and the IMEI not corrupted
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aNdroidnut:
So there is no way to tell. I see where the device was purchased on ebay from a canadian seller who stated that Phone is bricked. You will need to have the NVRAM reflashed. Does odin reflash the nvram?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jark99:
Sadly no, i believe this type of software is only availabe to samsung, or its contracted repair centers. If your in Ontario, the samsung repair center is located here. http://maps.google.ca/maps?hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=2F2&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&psj=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=futuretel+toronto&fb=1&gl=ca&hq=futuretel&hnear=Toronto,+ON&cid=0,0,7447344030180414210&ei=g_TNTOnmA42hnAfWrbjaDw&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQnwIwAA
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wwortel:
can confirm that the described trick (holding volume-down & home & power until screen turns dark) works but I had to try 5-10 times to get success once. Most times the phone --- PC logo returns after a few seconds.

Thanks for posting this rescue method !!!!

Had the impression that the chances of getting the mode activated increase when the unit is connected per data cable to USB.

Initially tried to activate the download mode via adb from a linux machine and then unplugged usb and replugged to a windows machine to work with Odin but that is unreliable and got the unit quasi-bricked. Get the unit in download mode while connected to the machine that you will also use to have odin flash a new OS or secondary bootloader so that you do not have to disconnect USB.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frenadol:
Phone bricked, doesn't boot

Hey guys, my phone bricked after rebooting for a system font change. I used the copy/paste the font directly with Root Explorer. I usually do it (change the font) with SSH, but I didn't have WiFi in this PC so I used RE. Now for some reason the phone just sits at the "Galaxy S I-9000" bootsplash, and doesn't continue.

So what do I have to do to "unbrick" it? The restore from Recovery Mode doesn't work and other methods for restoring the phone require connecting the phone to the PC and uploading files to the phone, which I obviously can't do. So I need your help, thanks in advance :D
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bignoses:
I have my phone since day 1, i guess it was august 6th.

Mine was vanilla too... no lag fix, no root, no flash.

I doubt the problem we're facing is hardware. I would guess bad OS state due to buggy apps. It hung when I oppenned Facebook (core Katana process thing) and never came back... then the black screen on reboot after battery remove.

Hope Froyo will be the answer.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvatarReborn:
Same had mine since day 1, no lag fixes and using JH2 flashed via odin and had not one issue.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirvenomitsac:
[Q] help!!!!!! please I think i BRICK MY GALAXY S

I was flashing jpp, It was the third flash, did everything as usual, the connection failed, the phone turned of, I got the phone and the pc with the ! symbol, can't access recovery mode. What should i do?

thanks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] My20:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=810682

but even if under warranty send it
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sirvenomitsac:
noob desperation

I fixed, I could acces download mode, I was pressing the wrong way one of the buttons. I saw that screen and I panicked. I feel kind of silly posting it.

But hey, there is a first time for everyone.

Thanks a lot, I hope you can see the humor in this :P
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
no bodys got any advice/ ideas?

surely this must have happened to others...right?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Richthofen:
Use a "defibrillator" USB dongle / cable (easy to make one, 301k ohm resistor between microUSB ID and GND pin). The phone starts in download mode.

Flash the fixed bootloaders.

After that you can get in the recovery and wipe data + cache.

If the rom you used was a high package, it will probably show error about missing dbdata (the phone will not boot). In that case just flash any of my firmware to fix it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
yeah i've seen those dongles, may have to have a go at making one...

how do i "flast the fixed bootloaders."? not suer what you mean by that..

i did not encounter any problems when installing any previous ROM's as i mentioned, i was not installing anything at the time of the screen dieing, i was on facebook!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alferret:
From everything you have intimated to I would say that your screen if ****ed, send it off to samsung for a replacement screen under warranty. The phone is not bricked as you can flash or ring the phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mayur9890:
Help,i9000 bricked,no boot,but 3 button work

HELLO FRENDZ,I RECEIVED MY SGS JUST TODAY,AND WITHIN 5 HRS ITS BRICKED,PLEASE HELP ME OUT...i already rooted my phone and then installed tayutama edition through clockwork recovery...everything was fine uptill then....next i downloaded the patch file and flashed it like the main file...here onwards screen was freezed on sgs b/w galaxy screen...no recovery now,but download mode was working...so i used odin to upgrade but stupidly used only the .pit file and nothing else...it resulted into no booting of my device.....

so as of now iam ABLE TO ACCESS DOWNLOAD MODE BY 3 BUTTON,BUT THERE IS NO NORMAL BOOT OR RECOVERY MODE WORKING,DIDNT EVEN TURN ON IF NORMALLY PRESSED THE POWER ON BUTTON...

PLZ HELP ME FRENDZ,IAM NEW TO ANDROID FLASHING..EVEN IF ANY1 WANTS I WILL PAY HIM A BIT...THNX IN ADVANCE
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rumble6059:
not sure if that is it though. I can flash the phone through odin...but i cannot ring/ text the phone so if it was the screen im sure things like ringing should work...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] derek87:
[Q] Phone is bricked, no tax invoice, what to do? Aussie

I bricked my samsung galaxy S a month ago.. I bought it from eBay, the seller didn't give me the tax invoice(proof of purchase) so i am unable to get it sent for warranty. Unfortunately 3 button download mode is not working on this phone.(Bricked my phone before the 3 button fix was out)

I have tried contacting the seller for the tax invoice, but he said he couldnt find it. Sigh.. Tried the heat up trick, no luck. (you know you'll try everything when you're desperate)

The previous owner told me phone was bought from virgin mobile, so my question is, where should i send it in for a repair? If not Virgin mobile, where else in Melbourne, Australia?

I miss my phone a lot, i heard it can be fixed for 50aud.

Please help.